30 runs in 30 days - who's with us? (Page 27)

After a year and more of lost motivation, sporadic running and a few failed attempts to get back to the 25-30 mile a week base I once had, I stumbled onto this thread. Huzzah! New hope.

Day 2 of my streak, 4.02 miles, feeling the effects of Day 1 hill repeats yesterday, 4.81 miles.

Thank you Muskrat37 and Left Brain for starting the thread.

Your welcome - please be careful not to increase your mileage too quickly.  (I'm sure you already new that, but I felt the need to say it anyway)  Good luck with your streaking!

Day 58 (I think).  8 mile run. Got in a few miles down near 7:20 and it felt easy. Think that's still getting near my easy/moderate crossover, so tomorrow will most definitely have to be well within easy. Both for injury prevention and if I want to make Wednesday hard (a normal hard day for me). Yesterday was a steep hills 13 plus an easy 5 later, so kind of tough. Surprised I felt this today, but think I could get away with it since my volume has been so high. Think I've done 70 or more a week for at least 6 straight weeks now, peaking above 80 on a couple.

And do note the difference between "got away with" as opposed to "able to handle" type view of this.

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Maybe there is something to this whole Mayan calendar/upcoming apocolapse thing.  Two weeks ago, I went running in 40-50 mph winds, sustained at times (Sandy).  Last week, I ran one morning in a foot of snow, and the temps dropped into the 20s.  Today, it got to 69 deg. 

I hope I get to 30 before the 4 horseman streak across the sky.

Nice! I've noticed less aches in general when I'm consistently running and doing so at a generally easy effort. So what little things may be there right away are gone quickly. The time to where my system is really raring to go still hasn't changed much, but I didn't expect it too. I'm just going faster. And even with all this mileage, I'm feeling really good. I was not expecting to jump up to this much so quickly and for it to feel *this* easy to handle. My recovery from harder efforts seems to be faster too. Basically all of them will have a 2nd run that same day which has always gone well, and also at least 1 run the next day which has also gone well. 

Getting real close to the full year - I'm very impressed!

jobaxas - 2012-11-13 8:34 PM Day 19 - that hurt.  A lot.

What happened?

Calf muscles just wouldn't loosen up - did a bigger run yesterday probably did it for me, and an interval set on the drainer last night.

In IM training mode into the build phase right now so once my 30days is up I'll be back to 3 times a week, don't wanna risk a big injury 19 weeks out from the big race!

If they don't ease up I'll throw in the towel anyway - doesn't matter, I've never run 19 days straight in my life so I'm more than happy!

Oof! That is a tough day. Haven't put that combination together in quite awhile. Not sure if I've ever done it with the run first. Sounds like a couple easy days could be in order.

after a real smashing on the drainer last night - 1 hour 25mins!  I took it real easy today - a short run, a slow run with all inclines walked.  Only did 2.7km but legs didn't hurt, still tight but not as bad.  I'm stretching and massaging as much as possible.

Day 20.

I hope you make the year.....that's impressive!  Good luck!

#66 tonight for me.....first run of the streak that was in jeopardy because of life getting in the way....managed to finally hit the gym for 4 miles on the treadmill late in the evening.....onward!

I'll make the year if I have to gimp a one mile jog every day being this close.

Day 359 and another painful 6.2 miles. I know I probably should not be running this far but it is kind of habit now. I hope this works it's out in the next few days like a few a other nagging aches and pains have through out this streak.

Do less! Can you ride a bike for more activity if you like? It's non-impact and can help work out the aches. You're operating in an area where such an ingrained habit could be detrimental instead of helpful.

Not long to go, hang in there.  I would cut back on the distance and definitely the speed...go as slow as you can without walking.  Get some massage, get in an ice bath....

Day 30, run 30:  20 minutes / 2 miles after a 1 hour game of fairly competitive ultimate frisbee (i.e. speedwork).

And ... I'm done.  I will be taking a bit of a break from running at least until the end of the weekend.

Big thanks to Muskrat37 and Left Brain for starting this thread: having this challenge was good for me.  It helped me bridge from the marathon in mid-October to the half-marathon in mid-November.  It kept me motivated to run lots, and I feel like my running definitely improved over the last month.

But, at times, the desire to maintain my streak led to some decisions I should not have made, including frequent midnight runs at the expense of much-needed sleep (including one 11-mile run that ended at 1:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning).  When I start my next run build, I'm going to have to develop some habits about running in the morning.  I also think that one thing I've learned from the streak is that it's good to have a rest day each week; I missed that.  My next build will probably use the BarryP six-run approach.

I also want to explore some other activities - review Wife's yoga tapes, expand my experience with the Sufferfest videos, and reintroduce myself to the pool.  I can't do those things and maintain a daily run.  Also, I don't want to start counting winter ultimate frisbee games as a run (as I did this summer during marathon training, to my detriment).

Over the next few weeks I'm going to step away from any sort of structured training and just burn some calories when the urge strikes. This will provide me with a good opportunity to review what I've done this year and what I want to do next season.  I have a couple of weeks before I need to start training for the Around the Bay 30K in late March.

To everyone else, whether approaching the magical 30 days, a whole year (wow!) or any other goal: good luck, and thanks for being there for the last month!